View of Chagar Bazar, Syria, sunset
Dorothy Susie 'Dora' Collingwood (1886 - 1964)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1937 (inscribed on back)
Materials
Oil on canvas board
Measurements
330 x 400 mm (13 x 15¾ in)
Place of origin
Syria
Order this imageCollection
Greenway, Devon
NT 121575
Summary
Oil painting on canvas board, View of Chagar Bazar, Syria, sunset, May 2-3 1937, attributed to Dora Collingwood (1886-1964), also called D. S. Altounyan. Sir Max Mallowan (1904 -1978), Agatha Christie's archaeologist husband, was excavating at the Tell (mound) at Chagar Bazar in Syria, near the River Dara, a tributary of Khabur river, between 1932 - 1937, many of the artefacts of which are now in the British Museum.
Provenance
Given by Mrs Rosalind Hicks, Anthony Hicks and Mathew Prichard, 2006
Credit line
Greenway, The Prichard/Hicks Collection (National Trust)
Marks and inscriptions
Verso: on MADDERTON STUDENTS’ CANVAS BOARDS Series 40 (BELGIAN CANVAS) grey backing paper, in green ink: Chagar Bazar, village on slope of Tell / May 2-3 1937 (sunset)
Makers and roles
Dorothy Susie 'Dora' Collingwood (1886 - 1964), artist